skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, this is a great idea and we're definitely going to give it some serious thought. If you have some experience with these kind of things, would you be interested in talking about it a little on Skype or by mail?
Build it yourself. Two men can only keep a secret if one of them is dead.
You're right, the author isn't a "reverse" or "backwards" racist. He is just racist, period.
Re: Pricing

I think $20-30 is in the agreeable range of what designers with paying clients will pay for things.

However, I think you can go higher if you emphasized the pain that something like this solves and how it can shave hours of time off the setting up a new bootstrap-based design - the cost can be subsidized by the account owner's clients.

If I were you, I'd look at the data you have now (your current users) and see how you could segment them into customers (Hobbyists, Freelancers, Agencies) and charge accordingly (for example, $19, $99, $249.) Thinking outloud.... but higher tiers could allow for multiple users and even client roles per account, along with restricted features that the lower tiers wouldn't have.
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to be honest, this is why i don't work in an it office full of poorly adjusted creeps. it's not that these guys are racist. it's not that they're sexist. they're just insensitive jerks. this actually comes across every moment of every day. it's your fault for working for them if you're white. i won't say 'it's even worse' for working for them if you're black, i will just repeat the sentence.

it's your fault for working for them if you're white. it's your fault for working for them if you're black.

get to a more sensitive, creative place. have a look around. do you see anyone like yourself? then it's time to head for the fucking door.

this goes for someone who is just creative as much as anything else.

to be honest maybe 1 out of 50 programming or internet startup places is even worth lingering for more than a hundredth of a second in.

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* this post has a tag, #creative - if you prefer the #rational tags you probably won't like it - but i think it's important for you to read it all the same
They have an external NFC tag that you can place near your front door that triggers the app on your phone to unlock your door through the web.
Man they got english.stanford.edu, they must be good.
I know I'm feeding the troll here, but this is the most inane response I've heard. If you want to be taken seriously, please learn the proper use of there, their, and they're. It's that simple.
Look, I'm not a fan of Kixeye's games either but I think we should be able to agree that the quality of their website is not really a consideration when it comes to the topic of discussion here. What does Flash have to do with this?
Products > All Office Products > Products > What suite is right for you? > Office for Mac

Or

Store > Office Software > scroll > Office for Mac
That's good advise for rhetorical speeches, but maybe he's just tired. Maybe he's been putting up with a stressful and hard-to-deal-with workplace and he's just had enough and he wants to vent.
IANAL, but unless he said that stuff to them at work and they documented it, it would be completely immaterial.
For what it's worth:
Mark Littlewood, one of the Business of Software organizers, apologized to the group and took responsibility. I don't have the transcript but he didn't think the comment/talk was motivated by sexism.
This doesn't surprise me too much; a company whose advertising is straight outta 4chan is probably going to have an internal culture like that of 4chan (hyper-adolescent, ignorant, and frequently toxic) but without the benefits of 4chan (total anonymity, non-persistence).

There are upsides to such an anything-goes environment as well (creativity, originality), but it's clear that in this case, anything goes to the extent that you're white and male. I'm not wholly in sympathy with the author (that necklace does kinda look like a pocket calculator, and the inquiry didn't seem malicious), but think he is right to seek redress. That said, it would be a good idea to consult an attorney about how much to say in public; showing an advert for your employer that will be recognizable to many other people in the locality may be a bad idea.
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It's not my dump, so I can't say. I've only been able to verify the university of michigan data is real.

Doesn't look like anything too critical was hit though.
No, he doesn't. He just tells you how horrific it is that they are being racist, whilst ignoring the fact that he's letting off racist jibes any time someone says something ignorant (and in at least one of the occasions, honestly, not wilfully so).
To be fair, Steam doesn't install apps the proper way on Windows either. Start menu shortcuts actually open Steam and then launch the game. Uninstallers? Launch Steam.
Take a walk through half of Baltimore, friend, and you will discover that you will get the shit kicked out of you for being white. Murdered? Hopefully not, but I can assure you that, while the old, racist, static power structures of the USA are oppressive towards non-whites, power is not a static thing. It shifts depending on where you are. When you are taking said walk in Baltimore, and become surrounded by people who don't like you because of your skin color, you don't have power anymore. They do. I know this first hand. When I was 16, I took a short cut through a neighborhood that I shouldn't have. I was chased, cornered, and beaten by 5 young men. They were black, and they were yelling white slurs as they beat me and then branded the back of my neck with a lighter. I still have that little smiley on the back of my neck to this day. They didn't rob me by the way. NONE of my money was taken. They didn't even touch my wallet. They didn't want a white person in their neighborhood. Your theory holds up because you, clearly, have never lived in a majority black neighborhood in your entire life. It's obvious by your stupid statement. And no, I'm not a racist. Most of the black folks I grew up with would never have tolerated such a thing. They would have stopped it if they had seen it, but they weren't there.
Uh, well. I don't know where to start really. On the one hand, this article is about racism and other forms of hatred at a large company, which is obviously wrong. It is about a personal experience. Every sentence written tells about what OP endured emotionally. I understand that this sort of discrimination is emotionally crippling and that it affects him deeply.

But this wouldn't be my comment if I agreed with everything. Then I'd just have upvoted the post further. The problem here is, that this article also paints a picture about the author and it doesn't paint a very welcoming one to me. The article itself is littered with racism and typical "anti-hate" buzzwords. The kind of words I usually hear from people filled with lots and lots of hate themselves.

That is definitely not the answer to any of the problems OP has faced. Is it understandable? Yes. Does it help? Not at all. Don't get me wrong: It's important that people get the word out to fight racism, because it's still prevalent all over the world but fighting fire with fire never helped and calling a racist any racist slurs only makes things worse.

Then there are some things I personally disagree with in general. PC speech is incredibly bad (and ineffective anyway) I think. Not only does it just shift the problem to a different domain, it also attacks free speech. Being pretty fundamentalist about free speech I can't find any good about trying to make a language "politically correct". After all, the problem aren't the words. The problem are the values different people assign to them. What we need to do isn't "banning bad words", we need to make people more open-minded. If this isn't accomplish, banning words won't help anyway, because one day the "politically correct" word will have the exact same value attached to them as - say, for example - "nigger" has today. Language isn't written in stone. It always moves and evolves and after all it's a reflection of culture and society.

Besides - not really related to the article - I don't believe in never offending anyone. In fact, I think I offend people on a daily basis just by stating my opinions and seriously, I couldn't care less. Obviously, racism is a bit more than just offending.

Oh yeah and by the way, last time I checked, neoliberalism was a school of economic thought.
This attitude, and the casual "reverse" racism of this author, sets back social progress against institutional racism against blacks/hispanics so much.

I totally accept that blacks face more racism in many aspects of society today, especially professionally. But in Baltimore a bunch of black kids jumped me, and they told me it was because I was white and I "thought I could walk around their neighborhood" (a block from Penn Station which is actually pretty gentrified). It wasn't even a robbery, although they did rob me, but if that was their only goal they wouldn't have continued to beat me for the ten minutes after I had given up. Oh, and of course that's not considered a hate crime.

So when that happens, and then you tell me, in all caps, that white people are never the victims of racism, do you think I'm more or less inclined to agree with your other points?
I'm sadly not in the least bit surprised by the comments here, actually accusing the author of being the racist, professional victim, all of that horse-shit. I am a white man, but the author's points really hit home for me, not because I've myself been treated this way, but because I have had to tolerate conduct like this for pretty much my entire life, just not directed at me. I can't tell you the number of times I've come to the defense of minority views over the years, and I've basically given up on it because the racists just turn their anger on me:

"Hey, I'm not sure how to tell you this, but you're not black." (laughs all around...)

"You know you're white, right?"

"Slavery ended a long time ago, blacks have nobody to blame but themselves by now" (roughly paraphrased)

"I've got plenty of black friends. They agree with me on [fucked up view]."

I'm a human being and I've seen black Americans treated more like shit than anybody else, by far, throughout my life. Usually it's the side-swiping stuff the author talks about, but sometimes it's right in my face, usually when discussing politics and social issues with my peers.

Ultimately, I end up doing what most everybody else does in my situation: I withdraw. I don't debate anymore. I don't grin, but I bear it. I help people where I can, silently.

I know I really only make technical posts on this website, but shit, sometimes you've gotta vent.
> How is a statement like "Steve then proceeds to do what white men always can’t help but do: “educate.”" not racist in and of itself?

It is racist. Anti-white racism is a common feature of modern black culture, but it's not considered controversial because of the traditional oppression of black people and the lingering effects that has today.
Steam shouldn't be a problem for people who use free software: just don't buy software from Steam, same as always.

If Steam convinces more people to install GNU/Linux I'd say that's a net win. People are going to be using nonfree software anyway, so they might as well do it on a free operating system.
You are right, it has no factor.
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One suspects there's a lot less going on than what everyone would like to think. (Thanks, ChuckMcM, for the nice post about money and stock.)

Mr Cheever is "something of a product design genius, and lots of people give him credit for Facebook's best features;" even the now-removed-from-Quora post says "to him the user came first and growth features would sacrifice that." That puts him in complete opposition to the guy (Mr D'Angelo, who to his credit is putting his money where his mouth is) who is paying the bills.

The problem is that almost every Q&A type site has the same issue as Quora: only a small percentage of its membership is actively engaged. The number cited by the article is eight per cent, and in my experience, that's about par for the course. Since revenues (and therefore stock performance) are directly tied to use, there are two ways to increase revenues, with implications regarding the user experience for both:

1. Increase traffic, AKA "make the pie bigger". This means doing the kinds of things Mr D'Angelo probably championed -- the SEO Solution, playing nice with Google, low barriers to entry (i.e. Free). This is the tactic taken by most startups, since they're generally looking at Mountain View and saying "Gee, if we could just get our hands wet in THAT revenue stream, we'd be rich."

2. Keep your existing userbase more engaged, AKA "get your customers to eat more pie". This means doing the kinds of things Mr Cheever championed -- making the experience better, providing more services to them, concentrating on getting lifelong customers rather than more customers for less time. Most startups aren't in it for the long haul; they're in it for the big payday.

The NYTimes obit of Arthur Sulzberger pointed out the difference. His family has always wanted to be in the business of disseminating the news; their competitors are in the business of selling advertising. Mr Cheever wanted to take care of users; Mr D'Angelo wants to see a return on his investment. If there was ever a startup in the position to do the former, it's Quora; I know my colleagues would dearly love to have enough money to where they wouldn't have to worry for a while how to keep the lights on.

But as William F. Buckley noted a long time ago, "Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive," and that's when someone like Mr Cheever moves on to his next venture.
First episode is his summary of a Freelancer vs. Entrepreneur. The distinction being working for yourself vs. building something bigger than yourself.
That's just a side effect of their business model - it's fairly evident that it's a higher priority for them to provide a great user experience than to lock them down.

Just yesterday I was reminded of this, when reformatting my computer and reinstalling everything. I forgot to deactivate keys on some of my work software before doing so, and spent hours emailing to get them back. Meanwhile, the whole license/ownership concept of all my games on Steam was completely abstracted away through their install-anywhere-as-many-times policy and Steam Cloud.
Not really.

Once he introduces the square root he introduces imaginary numbers, sqrt(-1), and transcendental numbers, for example the Gelfond–Schneider constant 2^sqrt(2).
The Princeton "University Database" that was hacked is a privately maintained Alumni Association site from the UK. It is not on the Princeton domain or associated with the University at all.

Here's an excerpt:
"Come out and suppoert Chickenshed, an inclusive theatre company based in London that brings people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities together to create groundbreaking and exciting new theatre."

Time will tell how the world will change now that this sensitive information is out in the open.
Joe Q Public had been subsidizing performance for quite some time. I think that era is ending because most of Joe's use cases can now be met with a ~1.5 Ghz arm tablet. I think the high end of the market is going to become more expensive unless a use case emerges where everyone wants that performance. Intels been hard at work trying to invent such a use case, but so far theres been little to show for it. Making games more realistic is one reasonable use case but those efforts have recently been stymied by content creation costs.
This looks really cool.

One issue with the video around 0:40...
Lockitron really needs to buy their hardware engineers some eye protection and magnification devices. You should never solder up close like that without eye protection. What they show in the video probably violates OSHA guidelines.
That actually made me think they are being unfair to Zynga. That's a pretty impressive level of douchebaggery.
Lua is very popular with iOS game developers.
On Windows 7 I can use CCleaner or the control panel to uninstall games installed with Steam.
Sounds like a real butthurt nigger. If he doesn't like the people there he should quit. He has no right to dictate how others should behave in private. Workplaces are private; this is not Nazi Germany, yet.
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It might. I'm also sure that if this were my problem, I might realize that 'doing what they do, while calling them out for doing it' might be seen as something of a double standard.

Much like some of the worst extremes of feminism, where it was forgotten that the goal was "equality", not "favorable treatment for women at the expense of men as recompense".
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The big assumption is that things happened exactly as they are being presented.

While I normally don't think a particular view would be that far from reality, in this case the author's clear bias - to the point of railing against a woman that made the cardinal sin of comparing his necklace to a calculator somehow equating to racism - I'm not so sure.
Just a side question. I lived in Santa Clara for a summer and spent basically all my nights out with a black coworker including going to SF multiple times and never saw any racism whatsoever.

The author seems to imply that SF is really racist. Is there any truth to that or did I just not notice while I was there?
Even more interesting to me is that all the software present--including the art software--somehow ties into game creation. It looks like Steam is becoming a market to sell both to people who play games, and people who make games.
Notch = John Ralphio?

Nice office but it's almost too try-hard :P There are better ways to make good work environments than make it look like something out of a sitcom.
Well those few sentences does bring out the troll in you.

>If you want proof that Microsoft is fake, just look at their images. Their using stock images.

So you want them to spend thousands of $$$$$ for a header images than use a stock which conveys the same meaning? And if you are thinking stock images are cheap, pay Gettyimages.com a visit sometime.

Btw do you have any proof it is even stock? I did a Tineye search on both the header images and the results din't return anything.

http://www.tineye.com/search/368891c7340390b1cec2afe6f1a2cfd...

http://www.tineye.com/search/31156cf0b5b5a963d44e85690689bdf...

Stop trolling and make your time online useful.
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This stupid white dumbf*! Can't distinguish baggy pants from skinny jeans!!11

Looks like someone is uber sensitive.
I want to create physical copies of Derailing for Dummies just so I can throw them at most of the commenters in here. You are hitting so many of the points. :(

http://derailingfordummies.com/complete.html
I agree. But unfortunately, OpenID can magnify the problem for some people. For example, my girlfriend has at least 4 different Stack Overflow accounts because she can never remember which OpenID provider she used, so she keeps accidentally creating new ones.
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About 1/3 of the way down...

I ask if that’s the word he used verbatim, and Mike says yes. I say if he wants to say that to me I’ll take that comment and all the rest to HR because I’ve been documenting everything racist he’s said, and Mike nods and says “yeah” and “ok” like he understands or like he cares.

And the "HR Dept" could be just 1-2 people.
It's not illegal for the author to be racist.

It's rather illegal for an employer to be racist in their workplace.

Yes, I'd rather there were a better whistleblower than this guy. You seldom get things to align perfectly.
Decoder ring for nerds who are unable to read past words like "neoliberal colonizer" without racing to the nearest TEXTAREA:

* A black coworker is singled out by another (non-black) coworker with "watch out for that guy, he’s trouble, he talks a lot of shit"

* Referring to a latino coworker, that same coworker suggests jokes: "Like ‘you’re a mexican whore’ or like ‘your mother’s a Mexican whore?"

* The black coworker is given a dictionary and told "I got this for you cause I know you speak ebonics."

* The latino coworker is then told "I would have gotten you one too but they didn’t have wetback to english"

* The author, who is black, is then told "Hey he’s dressed like Run DMC, does he know how to rap?" (The author is wearing a Pitchfork Media-compatible outfit including skinny jeans and a long-sleeved print t-shirt)

* The black coworker later informs the author that "Steve wanted me to let you know that we’re dressing too thuggish in the office and we need to dress in a way that reflects the company better". "Steve" is the previously-mentioned white guy, and also apparently a manager.

* After telling that coworker that he is considering telling HR about racism in his group, "Steve" takes him aside for a 1-1 meeting. The author is informed that any attire is acceptable except for baggy jeans. After hearing the author's complaints, "Steve" says, "Whoa whoa whoa, those comments you’re hearing aren’t racist; they’re jokes", and then "The problem is that you’re too sensitive. You need to check all that at the door before you come here to work", and finally "We don’t even tolerate people brining up concerns of racism here.".

* Later, a women asks whether the pendant the author is wearing, which is from Nairobi, is "a calculator".

* "Steve" later informs the author, "it’s ok to make jokes about slavery because that’s over". Then, "Also, you should be grateful that your ancestors went through slavery."

Peppered throughout the post are cultural signs and signifiers that mark the author as an advocate for a fairly specific set of political and social beliefs. A reader could be excused for having concerns that the author was not an objective witness. On the other hand, those signifiers are so obvious that you could also question whether someone who had set out to unfairly tar the company would put them into the post.

Apart from the comment about the pendant, any one of the comments listed above would be a firing offense here.
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He seems to have anger and martyrdom issues all over - even the start of the story. In a coffee shop on a laptop, man asks "Hey, do you play video games?", gives him a card as an IT recruiter looking for video games testers.

His thoughts on this? "Is this guy for real, or an uber-creep [hitting on me]"...

Which I gotta say, even from his telling of what happened, wasn't a possibility that entered my mind.
As another idea you can also look at how Duolingo has developed since it is mainly crowd-sourced. As for the Wikipedia summation contest I would say do it by number of tl;dr's as well as quality and have some kind of cash award for users that post the most with best quality.

I'm no expert on any of this; just a college student with a interest in a lot of things. But growth is what will make or break this as a viable service. Duolingo is successful because it is an incentive to learn another language.

The incentive to summarize something that is difficult is there; but if people are not willing to read the whole thing in the first place then they probably aren't willing to summarize it. The problem is to solve this by providing at least some form of incentive or general interest in it. That requires some key thinking.
> The way I read this, it's about the CEO overriding the decision based on aesthetic reasons.

I read this as the CEO overriding the decision based on experience, not aesthetics. Reducing choices reduces errors.
I can see it now -- BWOOOOSH -- ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED -- TYPED 1000 WORDS IN AN HOUR

Honestly -- this could definitely work for someone like me. I'm addicted to micro-achievement alerts
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